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The Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies is a non-profit organization operating under the auspi-ces of the Office of Archives & History, N.C. Depart-ment of Natural & Cultural Resources.
Mission: The Federation of North Carolina His-torical Societies inspires local history organiza-tions through collabora-tive learning projects and promotes history education statewide.
The Federation Bulletin is published quarterly. Submis-sions for the Bulletin should be sent to the ad-dress at the bottom of this page and should be received by April 1, August 1, No-vember 1, and February 1.
Newsome Awards
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Federation News
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Member News
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Conferences
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Workshops
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History Help
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Member Contacts
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Inside this issue:
Federation Bulletin
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies
Volume 36, no. 3
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7418
Web page: www.fnchs.org Editor’s email: adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov
After months of inaccessibility, the Federation’s new website is FI-NALLY up and running! It has the same address as always (fnchs.org), but it is now connected to the larger Department of Nat-ural & Cultural Resources’ website. There are still a few kinks to work out, like getting the long-awaited Paypal option plugged in, but we hope to fine tune it soon by working with new staff in DNCR’s Public Relations & Marketing Division. My favorite part is a google map with pins linking to all of the Federation’s members. Explore the site, and links to those of our members, when you get a chance. Feel free to get in touch with any feedback.
At our June Advisory Board meeting, advisors discussed and voted on a revision to the Federation’s mission statement. The new one is above left. The word count dropped from 63 to 20 and now signals our core activities more clearly. We hope you’ll find the new version (above right) more meaningful and concise.
he Federation of North Car-olina Historical Societies is a statewide coalition of organiza-tions, dedicated to working togeth-er to preserve and promote local history in North Carolina. An ad-visory board made up of repre-sentatives from member organiza-tions oversees the work of the Federation.
The Federation sponsors work-shops and meetings; offers loans to members for the creation of his-torical publications (print or a.v.) and special events; and offers technical assistance. For more information, visit the Federation’s webpage at www.fnchs.org.
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7418
Web page: www.fnchs.org Editor’s email: adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov
Federation Bulletin
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About the Federation
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Through 2016
Monika Fleming
Edgecombe County Community College
Belle Long
Joel Lane Museum House
Madeline Flagler
Wrightsville Beach Museum of History
Rebecca Taylor
Federal Point Historic Preservation
Society
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Through 2017
Barbara Norman
Historic Richmond Hill law School
Commission
Patricia Hughey
Onslow County Museum
Deborah Higgins
May Museum and Park
Leslie Keller
Hickory Landmarks Society
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Through 2018
Dr. Lawrence Auld
Perry-Weston Institute
Linda Evans
Greensboro Historical Museum
Ray Hinnant
Wake County Historical Society
Nancy Delia
Wayne County Historical Association
Members of the Federation Advisory Board
FEDERATION Fall Workshop
Friday, Nov. 18, 2016
9:00—11:00, State Library & Archives Bldg.
109 E. Jones St., Raleigh
DNCR Behind-the-Scenes Storage Tours
Come gather ideas from DNCR’s state-of-the-art collections storage facilities and see a range of best practices, as well as budget-friendly compromises, firsthand. Participants will tour the State Archives’ vault; the Archaeology lab; and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences collections storage.
Registration: $10; email adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov or call 919-807-7418; online payment option https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/annual-meeting
New Member!
Help extend a friendly North Carolina welcome to Chowan University’s office of External Relations. Chowan is one of our new-est National History Day partners and serves as a host for the newest North-eastern district. Do you know of a local history project worth recognition? Each year the Federation selects up to two local history projects to be honored with the Newsome Award. Past winners have included exhibits, programs, and publi-cations. We need your help to find the best!
Albert Ray Newsome served as secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission and as professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was a strong advocate for the study and preservation of local history. The award named in his honor recognizes outstanding achievements in preserving local history by member organizations. The award generally recognizes work accomplished during the previous 12—18 months.
Nominations are due October 1. If you have a nomination idea, download the award guidelines and application at this website link: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/fnchs/services/newsome-award or contact Adrienne Berney.(adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov 919-807-7418)
Recipients receive a $250 cash prize and a framed certificate. Awards will be announced at the annual joint meeting of the Federation and the North Carolina Literary and Histori-cal Association held November 18, 2016 in
Raleigh.
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FEDERATION NEWS
CALL for NOMINATIONS:
Albert Ray Newsome Award
The Wake County Historical Association won the Newsome award in 2013 for its restoration of the Rachel Blythe Bauer gravestone in Oakwood Ceme-tery, Raleigh. North Carolina brought 69 students in 17 different categories to the national competi-tion in College Park June 12-16. Several stu-dents and teachers earned special recogni-tion.
Caroline Murphy and Sydney Dye of Chapel Hill High School won first place at nationals (!) in the senior group documentary category with their project, "Introducing America to Americans," which discussed the Farm Secu-rity Administration's photography project during the Great Depression. What’s more, their documentary will be shown in Times Square this October at the All American High School Film Festival.
Jordyn Williams of J.H. Rose High School in Greenville received the David Van Tassel Founder Award for her senior division docu-mentary about noted African American chemist, Percy Julian. The award carries a full academic scholarship (!) to Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio and bears the name of the founder of National History Day. It provides tuition to the institution where National History Day began. Her project was sixth in the nation in the senior individual documentary category.
North Carolina has new brag-ging rights with its 1st place winner at nationals!
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FEDERATION NEWS
National History Day Update
NC contestants in the senior group perfor-mance category did very well and earned sev-enth place. From Classical Scholars Home School in Hendersonville, students Bayli Bayne, Bryson Bayne, Madison Belk, Sadie Bowen and Isabel Ward performed "Bold, Brash and Political: Artists Explored the Use of Celebrity to Encounter Art in a Bold New Way and Its Impact on Consumerism."
Skylar Holland of Wayne School of Engineer-ing in Goldsboro received a medal for her in-dividual performance focused on World War II American spy Virginia Hall. It was the out-standing state project in the junior division.
Dannis Cezarez and Melanie Irazzy of Surry County Early College in Dobson were chosen to display their group exhibit titled "Rocket Man Robert Goddard: Father of Modern Rock-etry" at the Smithsonian Museum of Ameri-can History Wednesday, June 15. Each state and territory chose one project to be on dis-play for that day. Federation Bulletin
Federation Field Trips
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FEDERATION NEWS
As I promised in the June Bulletin, this summer I began a Federation Field Trip program, where I make a casual visit to a Federation member organization for a brief conversation about the strengths of our organiza-tion and the ways it might do more to serve small historical organiza-tions statewide.
On June 9th I visited member John-ston County Heritage Center in Smithfield. I had only arranged this meeting a few days in advance and did not bring refreshments or a fan-cy presentation. I asked Director Todd Johnson simply to meet with me for a brief discussion about was most im-portant to him about a Federation member-ship and how our organization could support his institution in meeting the challenges it faces. Todd was kind enough to humor me and to invite representatives from other his-torical organizations in his county to come. Four people from three additional museums and historical societies—the Benson Library and Museum, the Clayton Historical Associ-ation, and the Kenly Area Historical Socie-ty—joined us to share information about their organizations, initiatives, successes, and struggles.
A common theme in our discussion was the importance of events for keeping interested parties engaged with an organization. In the Federation’s case, we hope the revitalization of Hometown History workshops will spur more interest in membership. The Kenly group has successfully tagged onto larger town events, such as Cruising Kenly, to in-troduce large numbers of visitors to its store-
front museum. The Benson Museum has reached out to sizeable and diverse audienc-es through regular programs honoring note-worthy community members.
A Speakers’ Bureau made up of NC DNCR staff who are able to present at no additional cost (beyond travel) is a service this Depart-ment could provide with potential real bene-fits to Federation members as well as other community organizations across North Caro-lina. This is an initiative that DNCR’s Edu-cation & Outreach Division is already work-ing on and Federation members will be among the first to know when the list of available speakers and their topics is ready to share.
Terry Hobgood of the Benson Museum and Library listens as Johnston County Heritage Center Director Todd Johnston discusses the current Civil War exhibi-tion. September 2016 Federation Bulletin page 6
This year the North Carolina Museums Council awarded Swansboro Historical Association a Free On-Site Consultation (FOCuS) grant. I had the honor to be appointed as their collections advisor and it was a great way to fulfill my goal of working in another Federation Field Trip this summer. We discussed collections management processes and I gave the group some tips on storage methods and materials. Another expert will visit for a marketing consultation. The group has entered a new partnership with the town of Swansboro, which has renovated a 1928 school building for the Historical Association’s use as a new town Heritage Center. Check out some of the members gathering to admire their newly restored floor below.
The Association will install some exhibits in their new space as well as providing room for meet-ings, workshops, and community programs. For more on another of this group’s successes—in fundraising—see the “Board Huddle” section on p.15
FEDERATION NEWS
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MEMBER NEWS
BLADENBORO HISTORICAL SO-CIETY’s annual FUN DAY will take place on Saturday, September 10th at the historic Farm Life School. It will open with a pan-cake breakfast, hosted by the Rotary Club, at 7:00 a.m. Other activities, including mu-seum viewing, kids’ games, rides, entertain-ment, and vendors, will extend from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Has a great lineup of fall monthly programs:
Monday, September 19, 2016, 7:30-9:00 pm, Jim McKee, Site Manager of Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson, will present Archaeo-logical Finds at Brunswick Town Wharf; Monday October 17, 2016, 7:30-9:00 pm., weatherman Steve Pfaff returns to join sev-eral of our members in Remembering Hurri-cane Hazel, a landmark in the lifetime of everyone who grew up on the beach in the 40s and 50s; Monday November 21, 2016, 7:30-9:00, Travis Gilbert will talk on the La-dies Memorial Association, who just after the Civil War made it their mission to inter or re-inter the bodies of Confederate soldiers and to raise monuments in their honor.
PRESERVATION NORTH CARO-LINA has made recent headlines for its renovation work in the Loray Mill Village neighborhood of Gastonia. See
http://plancharlotte.org/story/loray-mill-village-preservation-gastonia
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENE-ALOGICAL SOCIETY’s fall meeting will be Sunday, October, 16, 2016 at the Old Richmond Missionary Baptist Church, 18525 US Hwy 264, Swan Quarter, NC 27885. Beginning at 2:30 p.m., it will feature speakers from the church and selections pre-sented by the church choir. The fall issue of the Society’s journal, High Tides, will be available with a lead article focusing on the history of the 1916 Hyde Co. Eastern Mis-sionary Baptist Association (a part of the General Missionary Baptist State Conven-tion) with highlights from subsequent meet-ings. Early Hyde Co., NC Marriage Rec-ords: 1735-1899, ed. Linda Gray Mayo.will be available for purchase in November! The 326-page hardback edition, alphabetized by groom’s names and including a bride’s name index, will cost $40 plus shipping and NC sales tax. For more information contact the Society, PO Box 517, Engelhard, NC 27824 or email c.baum@earthlink.net
MEBANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY and MUSEUM offers free public pro-grams at 7:00 p.m. the third Monday of each month. The fall lineup is: 9/19, Education and Teaching in one of the area’s one-room schoolhouses; 10/17, Renovation and tour of the White’s Furniture Company Bldg.; 11/21, the history of Center Street.
JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE in Raleigh will have a Fall Fundraiser Block Party Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016 from 5:30-7:30. Fall monthly lecture topics include archaeo-logical discoveries, Gov. Richard Caswell, and George Washington’s southern tour.
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MEMBER NEWS
EDENTON HISTORICAL COMMISSION has launched a new initiative to preserve the 1825 Chowan County Jail. The jail is not only the oldest documented in NC, but it is also the jail with the longest history of use in the U.S. (having closed in 1975). Fundrais-ing efforts will help equip the site with a de-humidification system and interpretation to share stories of staff and residents over its 150 years of operation.
Federation Advisory Board member, Ray Hinnant, has stepped down from his longtime position as Presi-dent of the WAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Spread between three separate terms since 1998, Hinnant’s ser-vice as leader of that organiza-tion spanned 10 years. He will continue to participate as a member of the Wake County HS and to serve as Treasurer of the Wendell Historical Society.
Plan to attend the Wake County Historical Society’s annual Labor Day Raleigh City Cemetery Tour on September 5th.
[Photo from video by Gary McConkey via Wendell His-torical Society’s Facebook page]
FRIENDS of the PAGE WALKER HO-TEL have created a new self-guided walking tour of Hillcrest Cemetery in Cary. Learn about the past lives the memorials repre-sent, including 23 notable Cary-ites. De-pending on your level of interest, your walk can take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or more.
The walking tour brochures are available at the cemetery entrance as well as several downtown Town facilities, including the Cary Arts Center, Cary Theater and The Page-Walker Arts & History Center.
Also, you can find out even more about Hill-crest by downloading “Mysteries and Se-crets: Exploring Hillcrest Cemetery” at www.friendsofpagewalker.org. This fascinat-ing narrative was taken from a program de-veloped by the Friends in 2009 as part of their ongoing Preservation Speaker Series. Look for more featured cemeteries available on the Page Walker website soon.
Western North Carolina Historical As-sociation (Smith McDowell House) spon-sors a Tarheel Junior Historians Club. The Club’s summer work included photographing and researching the communities of Bun-combe County with the goal of creating a traveling kit for teachers to share local his-tory information with their classes. Above, some members add details to a giant map so that students can view the county as a whole and identify communities, townships, major roads, and the French Broad River. The club will participate in Hart Square’s Festival, October 22nd, where members will reenact a one-room schoolhouse for thousands of visi-tors.
See the Smith McDowell House’s current ex-hibit “The Blue Ridge Parkway.” Photos of the design and construction of the parkway from the 1930-1980s, original artifacts from houses displaced by the construction, and paintings by Jeff Pittman will be on display.
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MEMBER EVENTS
CHOWAN UNIVERSITY presents “Hidden Gems of the Albemarle,” a one-day conference exploring historical and ar-chaeological regional treasures
October 12, 2016, 9:00—2:00
Highlights include: a keynote by DNCR Sec-retary, Susan Kluttz and panel talks by rep-resentatives of 3 Federation member organi-zations
 Monika Fleming, Edgecombe County Community College Historic Preserva-tion Trades Program
 Maggie Gregg, Preservation NC
 David Serxner, Historic Hope Plantation
Registration is $25, which includes lunch, and available online here: https://www.chowan.edu/hidden-gems-albemarle-registration
This looks like a great chance for learning more about local history and networking in the Northeastern region!
PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTO-RY CENTER will hold an Antiques Ap-praisal Fair, Saturday, November 5, 2016, 9 am to 4 pm
Noted PBS Antiques Expert, Ken Farmer from Farmer Auctions and his team of ex-perts, will examine items and provide ver-bal assessments. Fair-goers will be able to have up to three items appraised at $10 per item. Proceeds benefit the Friends’ ongoing historic preservation and archival efforts. Tickets can be purchase from etix.com. $10 per item. Tickets purchased in one-hour time slots.
Also join in for “Tales from the Road & New Discoveries” by Ken Farmer on Friday, No-vember 4, at 7 pm at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at etix.com.
www.friendsofpagewalker.org or 919-460-4963
Preservation North Carolina
Consider attending the group’s annual conference in Greensboro, Wednesday, Sep-tember 28 – Friday, September 30. Click here to see the conference agenda: http://www.presnc.org/conference/ Registration is available for most individual events or for the total conference package, so that you can pick and choose, according to your schedule and budget.
HART SQUARE FESTIVAL
October 22, 2016 *Several FNCHS members are involved in this event.*
For more than thirty years, Dr. Robert Hart of Hickory has rescued and restored 19th-century Carolina backcountry structures, creating Hart Square – the largest collection of original histor-ic log buildings in the US. Each year on the 4th Saturday in October, Dr. and Mrs. Hart open this restoration project to the public. Dating 1782 -1873, the 70 log structures—chapels, barns, houses, shops, and more—are all fur-nished, and over 300 volunteer artisans demon-strate period techniques such as flax breaking and hackling, spinning, weaving, open-hearth cooking, broom and shoe making, bookbinding, shingle riving, wheel wrighting, tin smithing, and moonshining. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Catawba County Historical Associa-tion and the balance goes into a fund to carry on the festivals after the Harts can no longer do so themselves.
Advanced tickets are required; this event always sells out early. You can get tickets by calling the Catawba County Museum of History in Newton Federation Bulletin
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1916 FLOOD CENTENNIAL
In mid-July 1916, a tropical storm pushed inland over western North Carolina from the coast, just as the remnants of a tropical depression moved northeast through East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. The con-vergence of the two storm systems was catastrophic. Landslides wiped out whole families. Currents ripped babies from their parents’ arms. Rivers washed away thousands of jobs. When the water finally receded, at least fifty lay dead, damages totaled in the millions of dollars, and a thick black sludge remained where fields of corn and other grains once stood. The scope of the devastation was almost inconceivable; North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi would all need relief aid in the months following the flood. Perhaps no greater tragedy has ever struck the North Carolina highlands.
To commemorate this trying time in the state’s past, DNCR’s Historical Research Office partnered with the Western North Carolina Historical Association and the Wilma Dykeman Legacy to plan and implement a symposium held in Asheville on July 15 and 16 of this year, the 100th anniversary of the flood. Participants gathered at Asheville-Buncombe Tech to learn about the natural and social destruction wrought by the flood and the present-day protocols and plans designed to prevent similar devastation in the future. Guest speakers includ-ed historians , folklorists, and environmental policy makers. A preview of Hendersonville-based filmmaker David Weintraub’s documentary film, entitled “Come Hell and High Water,” was another highlight.
That weekend, DNCR’s Historical Research Office dedicated two North Carolina Highway Historical Markers on the topic, one in Biltmore Village and one in Belmont. Both are titled “Flood of 1916.” The marker in Biltmore Village was dedicated during the course of the symposium, but the marker dedication in [continued]
By Jessica Bandel
DNCR Research Historian
Members of the Belmont Historical Association, the Belmont oommunity, and DNCR offi-cials gathered on July 17th for a reception in conjunction with flood commemorative activi-ties, including a historical marker dedication and a traveling exhibit. [submitted photo] Federation Bulletin
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Commemoration, continued from p. 10 Upcoming Conference
Belmont took place July 17. Members of the Belmont Historical Society, under the leadership of Elizabeth Atterberry, organized local efforts towards the dedica-tion with great success.
The town of Belmont was particularly hard hit by the flood. On July 16, 1916, a Southern Railway trestle spanning the Catawba (located approximately one-mile south of where the historical marker now stands) gave way, sending nineteen laborers into the raging river. Ten perished. At the roadside dedication, descendants of flood survivors shared harrowing sto-ries of the trestle collapse as told to them by their par-ents or grandparents and pointed out well-known high water marks, providing all in attendance a clearer un-derstanding of the flood’s magnitude.
The dedication party, which included Mayor Charlie Martin and Councilwoman Martha Stowe, then travelled to the Belmont Historical Society museum for the opening of the travelling exhibit “So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood” and a reception spon-sored by Duke Energy. Company representatives were on hand to meet members of the public and talk about the flood’s impact on Duke’s predecessor, Southern Power. Signed copies of the Historical Research Office’s book So Great the Devastation: The Flood of 1916 were distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis at no cost. The event drew a packed house, thanks to the very great efforts of the Belmont Historical Society. We are sincerely grateful for all of their hard work!
Remaining Venues for “So Great the Devasta-tion,” the 1916 Flood Travelling Exhibit:
 September: Lincoln County Historical Associa-tion
 October: Wilkes Heritage Museum
 November: Chimney Rock State Park, Chimney Rock
 December: Burke County Public Library, Morgan-ton
 January: Iredell Public Library, Statesville
 February: Northwestern Regional Library, Elkin
 March: New River State Park, Ashe County
[Editors note: Federation member organiza- tions are in bold type in this article.]
North Carolina Preservation Con-sortium Annual Conference
“Unbroken Threads: Preserving our Textile Heritage”
November 7, 2016
NCSU McKimmon Center, Raleigh
Primary speakers:
 Newbie Richardson (Textile Conservator and AIC Associate),
 Paige Myers (Textile Conservator at NC Museum of History and AIC Associate), and
 Colleen Callahan (Costume and Textile Historian, formerly Curator of the Valentine Museum in Richmond)
Topics include the philosophy and mission of conser-vation and the many inherent vices such as: heavy trims on fragile fabrics, man-made fabrics and dyes, environmental concerns, light damage, insect and pest damage, stains, and damage from poor stor-age. Speakers will cover stabilization options such as vacuuming, dry cleaning, wet cleaning and sewing for stabilization The storage, packing and handling of textiles, including when to hang, to fold, or to roll. Also the roll of good record keeping and docu-mentation, how to prioritize artifacts for treatment and in regard to disaster planning and response. In addition, preparing textiles for exhibition and display will be covered, including types of materials used in mount and mannequin making, the use of padded hangers for display and storage, cutting ethafoam for small mounts, methods for mounting quilts, mounts for hats, using magnets with textiles, and an intro-duction to fosshape.
A lightning round in the afternoon will include Deb Higgins as a speaker. Higgins manages the May Mu-seum in Farmville and is a member of the Federa-tion’s Advisory Board.
To register for this conference, please visit https://ncpreservation.org Federation Bulletin
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Have you ever attended SEMC? (Southeast Museums Conference)
This may be your year!
October 10-12
Charlotte, North Carolina
With the meeting held in our state this year, travel expenses will be lower and all mem-bers of NCMC can continue to receive the early bird discount past the deadline. Plus, there will be all kinds of opportunities to learn from our NC colleagues and institu-tions. Start with some service learning at 2 Charlotte historic house museums.
Representatives from 2 Federation member institutions are helping two additional his-toric sites in the Charlotte area during SEM-C’s Historic House Affiinity Group’s Hands-On Help session on Monday, 7:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.
Both Latta and Rosedale Plantations have requested help from the collections and his-toric house experts assembling for SEMC. Rosedale has an English basement that needs a new coat of whitewash and Latta needs help with its collections management and storage.
If you have any interest/ ability to lend a hand during this initiative, please contact Marian Inabinett, Curator at the High Point Museum,
marian.inabinett@highpointnc.gov
and Mark Farnsworth, Director of Historic Bethania, mark@historicbethania.org.
During the conference several sessions will highlight the successes and expertise of NC colleagues in-cluding:
 Off-site workshops at the James K. Polk State Historic Site and Latta and Rosedale Plantations
 Fundraising advice from the Bechtler Muse-um
 Roundtable on presenting controversial his-tory with Federation member, Gaston County Museum
 Roundtable on regional and statewide disas-ter recovery networks with Federation mem-bers from the High Point Museum and DNCR outreach staff
 Roundtable on collaborative curation with several NC institutional reps., including Fed-eration member, NC Museum of History
 Levine Museum exhibit discussions
Plus, look for many additional behind -the-scenes glimpses of Charlotte in ways you’ve nev-er before seen the Queen City.
For more information and registration, please visit http://semcdirect.net/page-704744
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FALL WORKSHOPS
Each year, the Federation of N.C. Histori-cal Societies’ fall workshop takes place the morning of the N.C. Literary & Historical Association’s annual meeting. This year the joint meeting will take place November 18th.
FEDERATION Fall Workshop
DNCR Behind-the-Scenes Storage Tours, 109 E. Jones St., 9:00—11:00 a.m.
 State Archives vault and conservation
 Archaeology lab storage
 Museum of Natural Sciences storage
Registration = $10 online: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/annual-meeting
Or email adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov or call 919-807-7418.
N.C. Literary & Historical Association annual meeting
Where? Doubletree Raleigh-Brownstone University Hotel, 1707 Hillsborough St. 27605
What? FREE afternoon of lectures with 3-4 speakers, including a Quarter-Century of the N.C. Literary Review and Duke Profes-sor, Grant Wacker, author of Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Paid reception and awards dinner to follow recognizing outstanding literary and histori-cal works, including the Federation’s New-some Award presentation (see p.3)
When? 1:00—4:00 p.m. for lectures; 5:00—9:00 p.m. for reception and awards dinner
Registration: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/annual-meeting
If interested in receiving further NCLHA an-nouncements, please email adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov or call 919-807-7418
NORTH CAROLINA PRESERVA-TION CONSORTIUM WORK-SHOPS
Scrapbooks: From Acquisition to Access:
The Frontier 800 Park Offices Dr., Triangle, NC 27709 October 24, 2016 (9am-4pm)
Registration: The fee for this workshop is $50.00 for employees of NCPC member insti-tutions and individual NCPC members, and $75.00 for non-members. The $75 fee in-cludes a year-long individual membership. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
To register, please visit https://ncpreservation.org/workshops/
for form and instructions
FREE WEBINARS from Connect-ing to Collections Care
Management 101: Getting a Grip on Collec-tions Management, http://www.connectingtocollections.org/management-101-getting-a-grip-on-collections-management/
Register for and complete all 4 webinars to re-ceive a Credly badge.You can also sign up for each webinar separately.
September 15, 2:00-3:30 Basic Condition Re-porting
September 22, 2:00-3:30 Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Survival Guide for Messes Great and Small
September 29, 2:00-3:30 There’s a Form for That: Documenting Your Collections
October 4, 2:00-3:30 A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place: Conducting (and Maintaining!) a Collection Inventory Federation Bulletin
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HISTORY HELP
Apply to Host a WWI Exhibit
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources’ World War I exhibit is a flexible freestanding exhibit that can be configured to fit a variety of host locations. The main component of the exhibit is 10 re-tractable, free standing, informational ban-ners (approximately 3’ x 6’) containing infor-mation on North Carolina’s roles in World War I. Additional components to comple-ment the panels can also be borrowed, upon availability. These components include uni-formed soldier and nurse mannequins, props, and audio-visual components.
Some institutions have reached out to their local communities to request loans of family items related to local history and community involvement in World War I. Portable exhib-it cases may also be available to borrow with the exhibit if you need them. There is still availability in the 2018 schedule. Please dis-cuss further with LeRae Umfleet if interest-ed.
lerae.umfleet@ncdcr.gov
919 807 7289 (office)
4610 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4610
What’s your organization planning for
The WWI Centennial?
Here are some ideas from DNCR’s WWI
Commemoration Commission:
 Roll of honor of soldiers who served from your community (or smaller list of those who died). Many communities already have this information in their local histo-ry rooms and libraries.
 Identify the local county/city memorial to
war dead and seek permission to sched-ule a cleaning or repairing event. See http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/results/?subject=7 for a list of WWI mon-uments in NC.
 Plan an activity for April 6-9, 2017 week-end to mark the entry of the US into the war.
 Plant poppies in visitor centers, historical society, or library gardens. Scatter poppy seeds on Veterans’ Day (or later into win-ter) for spring bloom.
 Host a speaker on WWI topics (using DNCR’s WWI speakers bureau).
 Bring it forward to today’s veterans and do some oral history projects with them (particularly Korea and Vietnam vets).
 Get a group together to travel to Raleigh to view the Museum of History’s exhibit on WWI (opening April 2017 and running through 2018).
 Let DNCR know about your community’s commemorative activities for inclusion on our WWI Centennial website! HISTORY HELP
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Board Huddle
Fees or Donations?
During my visit with Board members of the Swansboro Historical Association, I learned an interesting tip from member Anne Shuller: A jar requesting donations results in larger revenue than a fee for re-freshments.
For many years the Historical Association has set up tables with hot apple cider and home-baked cookies at a variety of fall events including the November Swansboro by Candlelight tour and the Christmas Flo-tilla. When they first set up their refresh-ment stands, they charged set prices for cups of cider and a small number of cook-ies. One year, they decided that the process of making change or tracking sales had gotten too cumbersome and the group be-gan offering refreshments for free along-side a jar requesting donations. They raised more in funds with fewer hassles.
In addition to the Swansboro Historical As-sociation’s years of experience with their own community events, other studies have shown that set fees may not really be the best way for nonprofits to generate reve-nue. A 2010 study in Science measured the success of pay-as-you-wish pricing methods by selling souvenir photographs at an amusement park, with some at a fixed price and others for whatever buyers want-ed to pay. Of the pay-as-you-wish buyers, some were led to believe that the money went only to the amusement park, while others were told half the money went to charity. The study found that the people who could name their own price (absent the charity angle) purchased the greatest
the charity angle) purchased the greatest number of photographs. Yet the greatest revenue came when consumers paid what they wanted while believing half went to charity. (http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-case-for-free-admission)
Passersby stopping for refreshments feel gratitude to the Historical Association for its kindness and many want to give back. They may even be willing to spend more time at the table, learning about the group’s work. For those inclined to donate, the burden of making change shifts to them. The common practice of getting stacks of $20 bills from ATMs results in a higher propensity for each donor to drop a $20 in the jar for the benefit of the Histor-ical Association’s budget.
Has your organization experimented with set fees vs. donation requests? If not, Swansboro’s fundraising tip may be worth a try!
Anne Shuller (2nd from left) and other members of the Swansboro Historical Association in 2011
Photo credit: Tideland News 11/9/2011 HISTORY HELP
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Grants
The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership is pleased to announce the avail-ability of grants! Applications for the new grant cycle are due by October 3, 2016 and funding decisions will be announced by Febru-ary 1, 2017. Grants are available for the preservation, in-terpretation, development, and promotion of heritage resources in five thematic areas: agri-cultural heritage; Cherokee heritage; craft heritage; music heritage; and natural herit-age.
Nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and units of state and local governments are eligible to apply. The total pool of funding for the 2016 grant cycle is $180,000. The maxi-mum grant award will be $16,000. Applicants must provide at least a one-to-one match from non-federal sources. Further details, including guidelines and application forms, are available on our website. A Legacy of Regional Investment Over the past twelve years, the Blue Ridge Na-tional Heritage Area Partnership has awarded 133 grants totaling over $1.9 million to pro-jects that preserve, interpret, and develop the heritage resources of the region. These awards have leveraged over $4 million in state, local, and private matches. Grants awarded in previous cycles have sup-ported exhibits, demonstration gardens, oral history collections, video documentaries, inter-pretive programs, teaching materials, artist training, visitor brochures, and the marketing of heritage destinations. The grant projects have provided engaging and authentic heritage experiences to hundreds of thousands of visi-tors and residents.
October is Archaeology month and a good time to brainstorm a project for 2017. The Southeastern Archaeological Conference supports a program of small grants to finance public outreach projects, in order to promote public awareness of archaeology in the South-east. SEAC will provide an annual grant, not to exceed $2,000 per year, to an applicant through a competitive application process. Ap-plicants do not need to be members of SEAC. Applications must be in-hand by December 1st for projects occurring at any time during the subsequent year. For more information http://www.southeasternarchaeology.org/grants-awards/grants/description/
North Carolina Stories is a North Caroli-na Humanities Council grant initiative that encourages the investigation of local history via themes such as immigration, migration, adaptation, and displacement. The project is facilitated by a community nonprofit sponsor with deep and appropriate connections to the specific geographic area and requires a hu-manities scholar specializing in the themes inherent in the project or in the use of digital resources. Under the auspices of the Council, the sponsor group and scholar develop a pro-ject which examines, explores, and illuminates multiple aspects of the community and its his-tory. The partners will utilize digital tools to extend the examination and to identify and preserve the collective and foundational histo-ry of a place. The digital resources, combined with a mapping component, will be showcased with free public programming to bring results into greater relief for the local community and humanities audiences at-large.
North Carolina Stories projects can receive up to $2,000 of Council funds. Applications submitted by the first day of a month will re-ceive notice of funding by the end of that month for projects set to begin the following month. http://nchumanities.org/content/north-carolina-stories Federation Bulletin
MEMBER CONTACTS
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY, WADESBORO
WWW.ANSONHISTORICALSOCIETY.ORG/
APEX AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.apexhistoricalsociety.com
BW&A BOOKS, INC., Durham
https://bwabooks.com/
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION
www.beauforthistoricsite.org
THE BEECH MOUNTAIN HISTORI-CAL SOCIETY HTTP://BEECHMOUNTAINCHAMBER.COM/BUSINESSES/BEECH-MOUNTAIN/ATTRACTIONS/BEECH-MOUNTAIN-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY/
BELMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
THEBELMONTHISTORICALSOCIE-TY.ORG/
BETHANY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BLADENBORO HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY, INC.
BLADENBOROHISTORICALSOCIE-TY.ORG/
BORDER BELT FARMERS MUSEUM, Fairmont
www.facebook.com/The-Borderbelt-Farmers-Museum-Welcome-Center-580647132011557/
BURKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY
C. GRIER BEAM TRUCK MUSEUM, CHERRYVILLE
WWW.BEAMTRUCKMUSEUM.COM/
CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE, Wilmington
www.capefearmuseum.com
CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION, INC., RALEIGH
CAPITALAREAPRESERVATION.COM/
CAROLINAS GENEAOLOGICAL SO-CIETY
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncunion/Genealogical_society.htm
CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CASHIERSHISTORICALSOCIETY.ORG/
CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THE-HISTORY-PLACE-102491979824017/
CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Newton
www.catawbahistory.org
CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
WWW.CHATHAMHISTORY.ORG/
CHERRYVILLE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
CHICAMACOMICO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
CHICAMACOMICO.ORG/
CHOWAN UNIVERSITY
WWW.CHOWAN.EDU
COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
CURRITUCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CURRITUCK-COUNTY-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY-663261697075706/
DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
DUPLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HTTP://DUPLINHISTORY.ORG/
DURHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LI-BRARY
DURHAMCOUNTYLIBRARY.ORG/NCC/
EASTERN CABARRUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Mt. Pleasant
www.echsmuseum.org
EDENTON HISTORICAL
COMMISSION
http://ehcnc.org
EDENTON WOMEN’S CLUB
EDGECOMBE COUNTY COMMUNI-TY COLLEGE HISTORIC PRESER-VATION TRADES PROGRAM
WWW.EDGECOMBE.EDU/PROGRAMS/BUSINESS-INDUSTRY-AND-TECHNOLOGIES/HISTORIC-PRESERVATION-TECHNOLOGY/
ERWIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC PRESERVATIN SOCIETY
HTTP://FEDERAL-POINT-HISTORY.ORG/
FRIENDS OF THE PAGE-WALKER HOTEL, Cary
www.friendsofpagewalker.org
GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM
www.gastoncountymuseum.org
GRANVILLE COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM
WWW.GRANVILLEMUSEUMNC.ORG/
GREATER FAIR BLUFF HISTORI-CAL SOCIETY
GREENSBORO HISTORICAL
MUSEUM
http://greensborohistory.org
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KERNERSVILLE HISTORICAL SO-CIETY
WWW.KERNERSVILLEMUSEUM.COM/
KERNERSVILLE MUSEUM FOUN-DATION
LAWNDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HTTP://WWW.LAWNDALENC.ORG/
LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORIAL ASSOCIATION
WWW.LINCOLNCOUNTYHISTORY.COM/
MATTHEWS HISTORICAL FOUN-DATION
WWW.MATTHEWSHISTORICALFOUNDATION.ORG/
THE MAY MUSEUM AND PARK, FARMVILLE
WWW.FARMVILLE-NC.COM/DEPARTMENTS_MAYMUSEUM.HTM
MCDOWELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FACEBOOK.COM/MCDOWELL-COUNTY-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY-123023633846/
MEBANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM
WWW.MEBANEHISTORICALSOCIETY.ORG/
MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL AS-SOCIATION
WWW.MECKDEC.ORG/
MOORESVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CI.MOORESVILLE.NC.US/297/SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS
MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF REGIONAL HISTORY
www.northcarolinamuseum.org
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MEMBER CONTACTS
HALIFAX COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
HENDERSON COUNTY GENEALOG-ICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.HCGHS.COM/
HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY
http://hickorylandmarks.org
HIGH POINT MUSEUM
www.highpointmuseum.org
HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIE-TY, INC.
HISTORIC BETHANIA
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BETHANIANC/
HISTORIC CABARRUS ASSOCIA-TION, INC.
HISTORICCABARRUS.COM/
HISTORIC FLAT ROCK, INC.
WWW.HISTORICFLATROCKINC.ORG/
HISTORIC HOPE PLANTATION, Windsor
www.hopeplantation.org
THE HISTORIC JAMESTOWN SOCI-ETY
WWW.MENDENHALLHOMEPLACE.COM/
HISTORIC RICHMOND HILL LAW SCHOOL
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
WWW.NCGENWEB.US/HYDE/HCHGS.HTM
JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE, Ra-leigh www.joellane.org
JOHNSTON COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER
WWW.JOHNSTONNC.COM/HERITAGE2/INDEX.CFM?CFID=20205005&CFTOKEN=46015796
MOUNTY HOLLY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/MHHSNC/
MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
www.murfreesboronc.org/
MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY
www.museumofdurhamhistory.org
NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.newbernhistorical.org
NEW HOPE VALLEY RAILWAY, New Hill
www.triangletrain.com
NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCATION OF HISTORIANS
HTTP://WWW.NCHISTORIANS.ORG/
NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY & HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, RA-LEIGH
HTTP://LITANDHIST.NCDCR.GOV/
NORTH CAROLINA MILITARY HIS-TORICAL SOCIETY, RALEIGH
WWW.NCMHS.NET/
NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERI-AN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.NCPHSOCIETY.ORG/
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY, Raleigh
www.ncmuseumofhistory.org
OCRACOKE PRESERVATION SOCI-ETY, INC.
OCRACOKEPRESERVATION.ORG/
OLD HICKORY COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
WWW.OLDHICKORYCOUNCIL.ORG/
OLD SALEM
www.oldsalem.org,
Outer Banks Conservationists
www.theislandfarm.com/history/
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PHOENIIX HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEPHOENIXHISTORICALSOCIETY/
PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL
www.preservationchapelhill.org
PRESERVATION NORTH CAROLI-NA WWW.PRESNC.ORG/
RAILROAD HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, SANFORD-WWW.RAILROADHOUSE.ORG/RAILROAD-HOUSE-HISTORICAL-ASSOCIATION.HTML
RALEIGH CITY CEMETERIES PRESERVATION
HTTP://RCCPRESERVATION.ORG/
RALEIGH HISTORIC DEVELOP-MENT COMMISSION
RHDC.ORG/
RICHMOND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/RICHHISTORY/
ROWAN MUSEUM
WWW.ROWANMUSEUM.ORG/
SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVISTS
WWW.NCARCHIVISTS.ORG/
SOUTHPORT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
www.southporthistoricalsociety.org
SWANSBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCI-ATION, INC.
SWANSBOROHISTORICSITE.ORG/
UNC GREENSBORO DEPART-MENT OF HISTORY
WWW.UNCG.EDU/HIS/INDEX.HTML
VALLEYTOWN CULTURAL ARTS & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.ANDREWSVALLEYARTS.COM/
VANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY, INC.
WAYNE COUNTY MUSEUM, Goldsboro
http://waynemuseum.org/home
WENDELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
WWW.WENDELLHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM/PAGES/DEFAULT.ASPX
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIS-TORICAL ASSOCIATION
HTTP://WWW.WNCHISTORY.ORG/
WILSON COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The Federation
of NC Historical Societies
4610 MSC
Raleigh, NC 27699-4610

Showcasing What We Do
The Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies is a non-profit organization operating under the auspi-ces of the Office of Archives & History, N.C. Depart-ment of Natural & Cultural Resources.
Mission: The Federation of North Carolina His-torical Societies inspires local history organiza-tions through collabora-tive learning projects and promotes history education statewide.
The Federation Bulletin is published quarterly. Submis-sions for the Bulletin should be sent to the ad-dress at the bottom of this page and should be received by April 1, August 1, No-vember 1, and February 1.
Newsome Awards
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Federation News
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Member News
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Conferences
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Workshops
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History Help
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Member Contacts
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Inside this issue:
Federation Bulletin
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies
Volume 36, no. 3
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7418
Web page: www.fnchs.org Editor’s email: adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov
After months of inaccessibility, the Federation’s new website is FI-NALLY up and running! It has the same address as always (fnchs.org), but it is now connected to the larger Department of Nat-ural & Cultural Resources’ website. There are still a few kinks to work out, like getting the long-awaited Paypal option plugged in, but we hope to fine tune it soon by working with new staff in DNCR’s Public Relations & Marketing Division. My favorite part is a google map with pins linking to all of the Federation’s members. Explore the site, and links to those of our members, when you get a chance. Feel free to get in touch with any feedback.
At our June Advisory Board meeting, advisors discussed and voted on a revision to the Federation’s mission statement. The new one is above left. The word count dropped from 63 to 20 and now signals our core activities more clearly. We hope you’ll find the new version (above right) more meaningful and concise.
he Federation of North Car-olina Historical Societies is a statewide coalition of organiza-tions, dedicated to working togeth-er to preserve and promote local history in North Carolina. An ad-visory board made up of repre-sentatives from member organiza-tions oversees the work of the Federation.
The Federation sponsors work-shops and meetings; offers loans to members for the creation of his-torical publications (print or a.v.) and special events; and offers technical assistance. For more information, visit the Federation’s webpage at www.fnchs.org.
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7418
Web page: www.fnchs.org Editor’s email: adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov
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About the Federation
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Through 2016
Monika Fleming
Edgecombe County Community College
Belle Long
Joel Lane Museum House
Madeline Flagler
Wrightsville Beach Museum of History
Rebecca Taylor
Federal Point Historic Preservation
Society
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Through 2017
Barbara Norman
Historic Richmond Hill law School
Commission
Patricia Hughey
Onslow County Museum
Deborah Higgins
May Museum and Park
Leslie Keller
Hickory Landmarks Society
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Through 2018
Dr. Lawrence Auld
Perry-Weston Institute
Linda Evans
Greensboro Historical Museum
Ray Hinnant
Wake County Historical Society
Nancy Delia
Wayne County Historical Association
Members of the Federation Advisory Board
FEDERATION Fall Workshop
Friday, Nov. 18, 2016
9:00—11:00, State Library & Archives Bldg.
109 E. Jones St., Raleigh
DNCR Behind-the-Scenes Storage Tours
Come gather ideas from DNCR’s state-of-the-art collections storage facilities and see a range of best practices, as well as budget-friendly compromises, firsthand. Participants will tour the State Archives’ vault; the Archaeology lab; and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences collections storage.
Registration: $10; email adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov or call 919-807-7418; online payment option https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/annual-meeting
New Member!
Help extend a friendly North Carolina welcome to Chowan University’s office of External Relations. Chowan is one of our new-est National History Day partners and serves as a host for the newest North-eastern district. Do you know of a local history project worth recognition? Each year the Federation selects up to two local history projects to be honored with the Newsome Award. Past winners have included exhibits, programs, and publi-cations. We need your help to find the best!
Albert Ray Newsome served as secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission and as professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was a strong advocate for the study and preservation of local history. The award named in his honor recognizes outstanding achievements in preserving local history by member organizations. The award generally recognizes work accomplished during the previous 12—18 months.
Nominations are due October 1. If you have a nomination idea, download the award guidelines and application at this website link: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/fnchs/services/newsome-award or contact Adrienne Berney.(adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov 919-807-7418)
Recipients receive a $250 cash prize and a framed certificate. Awards will be announced at the annual joint meeting of the Federation and the North Carolina Literary and Histori-cal Association held November 18, 2016 in
Raleigh.
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FEDERATION NEWS
CALL for NOMINATIONS:
Albert Ray Newsome Award
The Wake County Historical Association won the Newsome award in 2013 for its restoration of the Rachel Blythe Bauer gravestone in Oakwood Ceme-tery, Raleigh. North Carolina brought 69 students in 17 different categories to the national competi-tion in College Park June 12-16. Several stu-dents and teachers earned special recogni-tion.
Caroline Murphy and Sydney Dye of Chapel Hill High School won first place at nationals (!) in the senior group documentary category with their project, "Introducing America to Americans," which discussed the Farm Secu-rity Administration's photography project during the Great Depression. What’s more, their documentary will be shown in Times Square this October at the All American High School Film Festival.
Jordyn Williams of J.H. Rose High School in Greenville received the David Van Tassel Founder Award for her senior division docu-mentary about noted African American chemist, Percy Julian. The award carries a full academic scholarship (!) to Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio and bears the name of the founder of National History Day. It provides tuition to the institution where National History Day began. Her project was sixth in the nation in the senior individual documentary category.
North Carolina has new brag-ging rights with its 1st place winner at nationals!
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National History Day Update
NC contestants in the senior group perfor-mance category did very well and earned sev-enth place. From Classical Scholars Home School in Hendersonville, students Bayli Bayne, Bryson Bayne, Madison Belk, Sadie Bowen and Isabel Ward performed "Bold, Brash and Political: Artists Explored the Use of Celebrity to Encounter Art in a Bold New Way and Its Impact on Consumerism."
Skylar Holland of Wayne School of Engineer-ing in Goldsboro received a medal for her in-dividual performance focused on World War II American spy Virginia Hall. It was the out-standing state project in the junior division.
Dannis Cezarez and Melanie Irazzy of Surry County Early College in Dobson were chosen to display their group exhibit titled "Rocket Man Robert Goddard: Father of Modern Rock-etry" at the Smithsonian Museum of Ameri-can History Wednesday, June 15. Each state and territory chose one project to be on dis-play for that day. Federation Bulletin
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FEDERATION NEWS
As I promised in the June Bulletin, this summer I began a Federation Field Trip program, where I make a casual visit to a Federation member organization for a brief conversation about the strengths of our organiza-tion and the ways it might do more to serve small historical organiza-tions statewide.
On June 9th I visited member John-ston County Heritage Center in Smithfield. I had only arranged this meeting a few days in advance and did not bring refreshments or a fan-cy presentation. I asked Director Todd Johnson simply to meet with me for a brief discussion about was most im-portant to him about a Federation member-ship and how our organization could support his institution in meeting the challenges it faces. Todd was kind enough to humor me and to invite representatives from other his-torical organizations in his county to come. Four people from three additional museums and historical societies—the Benson Library and Museum, the Clayton Historical Associ-ation, and the Kenly Area Historical Socie-ty—joined us to share information about their organizations, initiatives, successes, and struggles.
A common theme in our discussion was the importance of events for keeping interested parties engaged with an organization. In the Federation’s case, we hope the revitalization of Hometown History workshops will spur more interest in membership. The Kenly group has successfully tagged onto larger town events, such as Cruising Kenly, to in-troduce large numbers of visitors to its store-
front museum. The Benson Museum has reached out to sizeable and diverse audienc-es through regular programs honoring note-worthy community members.
A Speakers’ Bureau made up of NC DNCR staff who are able to present at no additional cost (beyond travel) is a service this Depart-ment could provide with potential real bene-fits to Federation members as well as other community organizations across North Caro-lina. This is an initiative that DNCR’s Edu-cation & Outreach Division is already work-ing on and Federation members will be among the first to know when the list of available speakers and their topics is ready to share.
Terry Hobgood of the Benson Museum and Library listens as Johnston County Heritage Center Director Todd Johnston discusses the current Civil War exhibi-tion. September 2016 Federation Bulletin page 6
This year the North Carolina Museums Council awarded Swansboro Historical Association a Free On-Site Consultation (FOCuS) grant. I had the honor to be appointed as their collections advisor and it was a great way to fulfill my goal of working in another Federation Field Trip this summer. We discussed collections management processes and I gave the group some tips on storage methods and materials. Another expert will visit for a marketing consultation. The group has entered a new partnership with the town of Swansboro, which has renovated a 1928 school building for the Historical Association’s use as a new town Heritage Center. Check out some of the members gathering to admire their newly restored floor below.
The Association will install some exhibits in their new space as well as providing room for meet-ings, workshops, and community programs. For more on another of this group’s successes—in fundraising—see the “Board Huddle” section on p.15
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MEMBER NEWS
BLADENBORO HISTORICAL SO-CIETY’s annual FUN DAY will take place on Saturday, September 10th at the historic Farm Life School. It will open with a pan-cake breakfast, hosted by the Rotary Club, at 7:00 a.m. Other activities, including mu-seum viewing, kids’ games, rides, entertain-ment, and vendors, will extend from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Has a great lineup of fall monthly programs:
Monday, September 19, 2016, 7:30-9:00 pm, Jim McKee, Site Manager of Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson, will present Archaeo-logical Finds at Brunswick Town Wharf; Monday October 17, 2016, 7:30-9:00 pm., weatherman Steve Pfaff returns to join sev-eral of our members in Remembering Hurri-cane Hazel, a landmark in the lifetime of everyone who grew up on the beach in the 40s and 50s; Monday November 21, 2016, 7:30-9:00, Travis Gilbert will talk on the La-dies Memorial Association, who just after the Civil War made it their mission to inter or re-inter the bodies of Confederate soldiers and to raise monuments in their honor.
PRESERVATION NORTH CARO-LINA has made recent headlines for its renovation work in the Loray Mill Village neighborhood of Gastonia. See
http://plancharlotte.org/story/loray-mill-village-preservation-gastonia
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENE-ALOGICAL SOCIETY’s fall meeting will be Sunday, October, 16, 2016 at the Old Richmond Missionary Baptist Church, 18525 US Hwy 264, Swan Quarter, NC 27885. Beginning at 2:30 p.m., it will feature speakers from the church and selections pre-sented by the church choir. The fall issue of the Society’s journal, High Tides, will be available with a lead article focusing on the history of the 1916 Hyde Co. Eastern Mis-sionary Baptist Association (a part of the General Missionary Baptist State Conven-tion) with highlights from subsequent meet-ings. Early Hyde Co., NC Marriage Rec-ords: 1735-1899, ed. Linda Gray Mayo.will be available for purchase in November! The 326-page hardback edition, alphabetized by groom’s names and including a bride’s name index, will cost $40 plus shipping and NC sales tax. For more information contact the Society, PO Box 517, Engelhard, NC 27824 or email c.baum@earthlink.net
MEBANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY and MUSEUM offers free public pro-grams at 7:00 p.m. the third Monday of each month. The fall lineup is: 9/19, Education and Teaching in one of the area’s one-room schoolhouses; 10/17, Renovation and tour of the White’s Furniture Company Bldg.; 11/21, the history of Center Street.
JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE in Raleigh will have a Fall Fundraiser Block Party Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016 from 5:30-7:30. Fall monthly lecture topics include archaeo-logical discoveries, Gov. Richard Caswell, and George Washington’s southern tour.
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MEMBER NEWS
EDENTON HISTORICAL COMMISSION has launched a new initiative to preserve the 1825 Chowan County Jail. The jail is not only the oldest documented in NC, but it is also the jail with the longest history of use in the U.S. (having closed in 1975). Fundrais-ing efforts will help equip the site with a de-humidification system and interpretation to share stories of staff and residents over its 150 years of operation.
Federation Advisory Board member, Ray Hinnant, has stepped down from his longtime position as Presi-dent of the WAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Spread between three separate terms since 1998, Hinnant’s ser-vice as leader of that organiza-tion spanned 10 years. He will continue to participate as a member of the Wake County HS and to serve as Treasurer of the Wendell Historical Society.
Plan to attend the Wake County Historical Society’s annual Labor Day Raleigh City Cemetery Tour on September 5th.
[Photo from video by Gary McConkey via Wendell His-torical Society’s Facebook page]
FRIENDS of the PAGE WALKER HO-TEL have created a new self-guided walking tour of Hillcrest Cemetery in Cary. Learn about the past lives the memorials repre-sent, including 23 notable Cary-ites. De-pending on your level of interest, your walk can take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or more.
The walking tour brochures are available at the cemetery entrance as well as several downtown Town facilities, including the Cary Arts Center, Cary Theater and The Page-Walker Arts & History Center.
Also, you can find out even more about Hill-crest by downloading “Mysteries and Se-crets: Exploring Hillcrest Cemetery” at www.friendsofpagewalker.org. This fascinat-ing narrative was taken from a program de-veloped by the Friends in 2009 as part of their ongoing Preservation Speaker Series. Look for more featured cemeteries available on the Page Walker website soon.
Western North Carolina Historical As-sociation (Smith McDowell House) spon-sors a Tarheel Junior Historians Club. The Club’s summer work included photographing and researching the communities of Bun-combe County with the goal of creating a traveling kit for teachers to share local his-tory information with their classes. Above, some members add details to a giant map so that students can view the county as a whole and identify communities, townships, major roads, and the French Broad River. The club will participate in Hart Square’s Festival, October 22nd, where members will reenact a one-room schoolhouse for thousands of visi-tors.
See the Smith McDowell House’s current ex-hibit “The Blue Ridge Parkway.” Photos of the design and construction of the parkway from the 1930-1980s, original artifacts from houses displaced by the construction, and paintings by Jeff Pittman will be on display.
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MEMBER EVENTS
CHOWAN UNIVERSITY presents “Hidden Gems of the Albemarle,” a one-day conference exploring historical and ar-chaeological regional treasures
October 12, 2016, 9:00—2:00
Highlights include: a keynote by DNCR Sec-retary, Susan Kluttz and panel talks by rep-resentatives of 3 Federation member organi-zations
 Monika Fleming, Edgecombe County Community College Historic Preserva-tion Trades Program
 Maggie Gregg, Preservation NC
 David Serxner, Historic Hope Plantation
Registration is $25, which includes lunch, and available online here: https://www.chowan.edu/hidden-gems-albemarle-registration
This looks like a great chance for learning more about local history and networking in the Northeastern region!
PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTO-RY CENTER will hold an Antiques Ap-praisal Fair, Saturday, November 5, 2016, 9 am to 4 pm
Noted PBS Antiques Expert, Ken Farmer from Farmer Auctions and his team of ex-perts, will examine items and provide ver-bal assessments. Fair-goers will be able to have up to three items appraised at $10 per item. Proceeds benefit the Friends’ ongoing historic preservation and archival efforts. Tickets can be purchase from etix.com. $10 per item. Tickets purchased in one-hour time slots.
Also join in for “Tales from the Road & New Discoveries” by Ken Farmer on Friday, No-vember 4, at 7 pm at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at etix.com.
www.friendsofpagewalker.org or 919-460-4963
Preservation North Carolina
Consider attending the group’s annual conference in Greensboro, Wednesday, Sep-tember 28 – Friday, September 30. Click here to see the conference agenda: http://www.presnc.org/conference/ Registration is available for most individual events or for the total conference package, so that you can pick and choose, according to your schedule and budget.
HART SQUARE FESTIVAL
October 22, 2016 *Several FNCHS members are involved in this event.*
For more than thirty years, Dr. Robert Hart of Hickory has rescued and restored 19th-century Carolina backcountry structures, creating Hart Square – the largest collection of original histor-ic log buildings in the US. Each year on the 4th Saturday in October, Dr. and Mrs. Hart open this restoration project to the public. Dating 1782 -1873, the 70 log structures—chapels, barns, houses, shops, and more—are all fur-nished, and over 300 volunteer artisans demon-strate period techniques such as flax breaking and hackling, spinning, weaving, open-hearth cooking, broom and shoe making, bookbinding, shingle riving, wheel wrighting, tin smithing, and moonshining. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Catawba County Historical Associa-tion and the balance goes into a fund to carry on the festivals after the Harts can no longer do so themselves.
Advanced tickets are required; this event always sells out early. You can get tickets by calling the Catawba County Museum of History in Newton Federation Bulletin
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1916 FLOOD CENTENNIAL
In mid-July 1916, a tropical storm pushed inland over western North Carolina from the coast, just as the remnants of a tropical depression moved northeast through East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. The con-vergence of the two storm systems was catastrophic. Landslides wiped out whole families. Currents ripped babies from their parents’ arms. Rivers washed away thousands of jobs. When the water finally receded, at least fifty lay dead, damages totaled in the millions of dollars, and a thick black sludge remained where fields of corn and other grains once stood. The scope of the devastation was almost inconceivable; North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi would all need relief aid in the months following the flood. Perhaps no greater tragedy has ever struck the North Carolina highlands.
To commemorate this trying time in the state’s past, DNCR’s Historical Research Office partnered with the Western North Carolina Historical Association and the Wilma Dykeman Legacy to plan and implement a symposium held in Asheville on July 15 and 16 of this year, the 100th anniversary of the flood. Participants gathered at Asheville-Buncombe Tech to learn about the natural and social destruction wrought by the flood and the present-day protocols and plans designed to prevent similar devastation in the future. Guest speakers includ-ed historians , folklorists, and environmental policy makers. A preview of Hendersonville-based filmmaker David Weintraub’s documentary film, entitled “Come Hell and High Water,” was another highlight.
That weekend, DNCR’s Historical Research Office dedicated two North Carolina Highway Historical Markers on the topic, one in Biltmore Village and one in Belmont. Both are titled “Flood of 1916.” The marker in Biltmore Village was dedicated during the course of the symposium, but the marker dedication in [continued]
By Jessica Bandel
DNCR Research Historian
Members of the Belmont Historical Association, the Belmont oommunity, and DNCR offi-cials gathered on July 17th for a reception in conjunction with flood commemorative activi-ties, including a historical marker dedication and a traveling exhibit. [submitted photo] Federation Bulletin
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Commemoration, continued from p. 10 Upcoming Conference
Belmont took place July 17. Members of the Belmont Historical Society, under the leadership of Elizabeth Atterberry, organized local efforts towards the dedica-tion with great success.
The town of Belmont was particularly hard hit by the flood. On July 16, 1916, a Southern Railway trestle spanning the Catawba (located approximately one-mile south of where the historical marker now stands) gave way, sending nineteen laborers into the raging river. Ten perished. At the roadside dedication, descendants of flood survivors shared harrowing sto-ries of the trestle collapse as told to them by their par-ents or grandparents and pointed out well-known high water marks, providing all in attendance a clearer un-derstanding of the flood’s magnitude.
The dedication party, which included Mayor Charlie Martin and Councilwoman Martha Stowe, then travelled to the Belmont Historical Society museum for the opening of the travelling exhibit “So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood” and a reception spon-sored by Duke Energy. Company representatives were on hand to meet members of the public and talk about the flood’s impact on Duke’s predecessor, Southern Power. Signed copies of the Historical Research Office’s book So Great the Devastation: The Flood of 1916 were distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis at no cost. The event drew a packed house, thanks to the very great efforts of the Belmont Historical Society. We are sincerely grateful for all of their hard work!
Remaining Venues for “So Great the Devasta-tion,” the 1916 Flood Travelling Exhibit:
 September: Lincoln County Historical Associa-tion
 October: Wilkes Heritage Museum
 November: Chimney Rock State Park, Chimney Rock
 December: Burke County Public Library, Morgan-ton
 January: Iredell Public Library, Statesville
 February: Northwestern Regional Library, Elkin
 March: New River State Park, Ashe County
[Editors note: Federation member organiza- tions are in bold type in this article.]
North Carolina Preservation Con-sortium Annual Conference
“Unbroken Threads: Preserving our Textile Heritage”
November 7, 2016
NCSU McKimmon Center, Raleigh
Primary speakers:
 Newbie Richardson (Textile Conservator and AIC Associate),
 Paige Myers (Textile Conservator at NC Museum of History and AIC Associate), and
 Colleen Callahan (Costume and Textile Historian, formerly Curator of the Valentine Museum in Richmond)
Topics include the philosophy and mission of conser-vation and the many inherent vices such as: heavy trims on fragile fabrics, man-made fabrics and dyes, environmental concerns, light damage, insect and pest damage, stains, and damage from poor stor-age. Speakers will cover stabilization options such as vacuuming, dry cleaning, wet cleaning and sewing for stabilization The storage, packing and handling of textiles, including when to hang, to fold, or to roll. Also the roll of good record keeping and docu-mentation, how to prioritize artifacts for treatment and in regard to disaster planning and response. In addition, preparing textiles for exhibition and display will be covered, including types of materials used in mount and mannequin making, the use of padded hangers for display and storage, cutting ethafoam for small mounts, methods for mounting quilts, mounts for hats, using magnets with textiles, and an intro-duction to fosshape.
A lightning round in the afternoon will include Deb Higgins as a speaker. Higgins manages the May Mu-seum in Farmville and is a member of the Federa-tion’s Advisory Board.
To register for this conference, please visit https://ncpreservation.org Federation Bulletin
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Have you ever attended SEMC? (Southeast Museums Conference)
This may be your year!
October 10-12
Charlotte, North Carolina
With the meeting held in our state this year, travel expenses will be lower and all mem-bers of NCMC can continue to receive the early bird discount past the deadline. Plus, there will be all kinds of opportunities to learn from our NC colleagues and institu-tions. Start with some service learning at 2 Charlotte historic house museums.
Representatives from 2 Federation member institutions are helping two additional his-toric sites in the Charlotte area during SEM-C’s Historic House Affiinity Group’s Hands-On Help session on Monday, 7:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.
Both Latta and Rosedale Plantations have requested help from the collections and his-toric house experts assembling for SEMC. Rosedale has an English basement that needs a new coat of whitewash and Latta needs help with its collections management and storage.
If you have any interest/ ability to lend a hand during this initiative, please contact Marian Inabinett, Curator at the High Point Museum,
marian.inabinett@highpointnc.gov
and Mark Farnsworth, Director of Historic Bethania, mark@historicbethania.org.
During the conference several sessions will highlight the successes and expertise of NC colleagues in-cluding:
 Off-site workshops at the James K. Polk State Historic Site and Latta and Rosedale Plantations
 Fundraising advice from the Bechtler Muse-um
 Roundtable on presenting controversial his-tory with Federation member, Gaston County Museum
 Roundtable on regional and statewide disas-ter recovery networks with Federation mem-bers from the High Point Museum and DNCR outreach staff
 Roundtable on collaborative curation with several NC institutional reps., including Fed-eration member, NC Museum of History
 Levine Museum exhibit discussions
Plus, look for many additional behind -the-scenes glimpses of Charlotte in ways you’ve nev-er before seen the Queen City.
For more information and registration, please visit http://semcdirect.net/page-704744
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FALL WORKSHOPS
Each year, the Federation of N.C. Histori-cal Societies’ fall workshop takes place the morning of the N.C. Literary & Historical Association’s annual meeting. This year the joint meeting will take place November 18th.
FEDERATION Fall Workshop
DNCR Behind-the-Scenes Storage Tours, 109 E. Jones St., 9:00—11:00 a.m.
 State Archives vault and conservation
 Archaeology lab storage
 Museum of Natural Sciences storage
Registration = $10 online: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/annual-meeting
Or email adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov or call 919-807-7418.
N.C. Literary & Historical Association annual meeting
Where? Doubletree Raleigh-Brownstone University Hotel, 1707 Hillsborough St. 27605
What? FREE afternoon of lectures with 3-4 speakers, including a Quarter-Century of the N.C. Literary Review and Duke Profes-sor, Grant Wacker, author of Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Paid reception and awards dinner to follow recognizing outstanding literary and histori-cal works, including the Federation’s New-some Award presentation (see p.3)
When? 1:00—4:00 p.m. for lectures; 5:00—9:00 p.m. for reception and awards dinner
Registration: https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/annual-meeting
If interested in receiving further NCLHA an-nouncements, please email adrienne.berney@ncdcr.gov or call 919-807-7418
NORTH CAROLINA PRESERVA-TION CONSORTIUM WORK-SHOPS
Scrapbooks: From Acquisition to Access:
The Frontier 800 Park Offices Dr., Triangle, NC 27709 October 24, 2016 (9am-4pm)
Registration: The fee for this workshop is $50.00 for employees of NCPC member insti-tutions and individual NCPC members, and $75.00 for non-members. The $75 fee in-cludes a year-long individual membership. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
To register, please visit https://ncpreservation.org/workshops/
for form and instructions
FREE WEBINARS from Connect-ing to Collections Care
Management 101: Getting a Grip on Collec-tions Management, http://www.connectingtocollections.org/management-101-getting-a-grip-on-collections-management/
Register for and complete all 4 webinars to re-ceive a Credly badge.You can also sign up for each webinar separately.
September 15, 2:00-3:30 Basic Condition Re-porting
September 22, 2:00-3:30 Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Survival Guide for Messes Great and Small
September 29, 2:00-3:30 There’s a Form for That: Documenting Your Collections
October 4, 2:00-3:30 A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place: Conducting (and Maintaining!) a Collection Inventory Federation Bulletin
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HISTORY HELP
Apply to Host a WWI Exhibit
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources’ World War I exhibit is a flexible freestanding exhibit that can be configured to fit a variety of host locations. The main component of the exhibit is 10 re-tractable, free standing, informational ban-ners (approximately 3’ x 6’) containing infor-mation on North Carolina’s roles in World War I. Additional components to comple-ment the panels can also be borrowed, upon availability. These components include uni-formed soldier and nurse mannequins, props, and audio-visual components.
Some institutions have reached out to their local communities to request loans of family items related to local history and community involvement in World War I. Portable exhib-it cases may also be available to borrow with the exhibit if you need them. There is still availability in the 2018 schedule. Please dis-cuss further with LeRae Umfleet if interest-ed.
lerae.umfleet@ncdcr.gov
919 807 7289 (office)
4610 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4610
What’s your organization planning for
The WWI Centennial?
Here are some ideas from DNCR’s WWI
Commemoration Commission:
 Roll of honor of soldiers who served from your community (or smaller list of those who died). Many communities already have this information in their local histo-ry rooms and libraries.
 Identify the local county/city memorial to
war dead and seek permission to sched-ule a cleaning or repairing event. See http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/results/?subject=7 for a list of WWI mon-uments in NC.
 Plan an activity for April 6-9, 2017 week-end to mark the entry of the US into the war.
 Plant poppies in visitor centers, historical society, or library gardens. Scatter poppy seeds on Veterans’ Day (or later into win-ter) for spring bloom.
 Host a speaker on WWI topics (using DNCR’s WWI speakers bureau).
 Bring it forward to today’s veterans and do some oral history projects with them (particularly Korea and Vietnam vets).
 Get a group together to travel to Raleigh to view the Museum of History’s exhibit on WWI (opening April 2017 and running through 2018).
 Let DNCR know about your community’s commemorative activities for inclusion on our WWI Centennial website! HISTORY HELP
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Board Huddle
Fees or Donations?
During my visit with Board members of the Swansboro Historical Association, I learned an interesting tip from member Anne Shuller: A jar requesting donations results in larger revenue than a fee for re-freshments.
For many years the Historical Association has set up tables with hot apple cider and home-baked cookies at a variety of fall events including the November Swansboro by Candlelight tour and the Christmas Flo-tilla. When they first set up their refresh-ment stands, they charged set prices for cups of cider and a small number of cook-ies. One year, they decided that the process of making change or tracking sales had gotten too cumbersome and the group be-gan offering refreshments for free along-side a jar requesting donations. They raised more in funds with fewer hassles.
In addition to the Swansboro Historical As-sociation’s years of experience with their own community events, other studies have shown that set fees may not really be the best way for nonprofits to generate reve-nue. A 2010 study in Science measured the success of pay-as-you-wish pricing methods by selling souvenir photographs at an amusement park, with some at a fixed price and others for whatever buyers want-ed to pay. Of the pay-as-you-wish buyers, some were led to believe that the money went only to the amusement park, while others were told half the money went to charity. The study found that the people who could name their own price (absent the charity angle) purchased the greatest
the charity angle) purchased the greatest number of photographs. Yet the greatest revenue came when consumers paid what they wanted while believing half went to charity. (http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-case-for-free-admission)
Passersby stopping for refreshments feel gratitude to the Historical Association for its kindness and many want to give back. They may even be willing to spend more time at the table, learning about the group’s work. For those inclined to donate, the burden of making change shifts to them. The common practice of getting stacks of $20 bills from ATMs results in a higher propensity for each donor to drop a $20 in the jar for the benefit of the Histor-ical Association’s budget.
Has your organization experimented with set fees vs. donation requests? If not, Swansboro’s fundraising tip may be worth a try!
Anne Shuller (2nd from left) and other members of the Swansboro Historical Association in 2011
Photo credit: Tideland News 11/9/2011 HISTORY HELP
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Grants
The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership is pleased to announce the avail-ability of grants! Applications for the new grant cycle are due by October 3, 2016 and funding decisions will be announced by Febru-ary 1, 2017. Grants are available for the preservation, in-terpretation, development, and promotion of heritage resources in five thematic areas: agri-cultural heritage; Cherokee heritage; craft heritage; music heritage; and natural herit-age.
Nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and units of state and local governments are eligible to apply. The total pool of funding for the 2016 grant cycle is $180,000. The maxi-mum grant award will be $16,000. Applicants must provide at least a one-to-one match from non-federal sources. Further details, including guidelines and application forms, are available on our website. A Legacy of Regional Investment Over the past twelve years, the Blue Ridge Na-tional Heritage Area Partnership has awarded 133 grants totaling over $1.9 million to pro-jects that preserve, interpret, and develop the heritage resources of the region. These awards have leveraged over $4 million in state, local, and private matches. Grants awarded in previous cycles have sup-ported exhibits, demonstration gardens, oral history collections, video documentaries, inter-pretive programs, teaching materials, artist training, visitor brochures, and the marketing of heritage destinations. The grant projects have provided engaging and authentic heritage experiences to hundreds of thousands of visi-tors and residents.
October is Archaeology month and a good time to brainstorm a project for 2017. The Southeastern Archaeological Conference supports a program of small grants to finance public outreach projects, in order to promote public awareness of archaeology in the South-east. SEAC will provide an annual grant, not to exceed $2,000 per year, to an applicant through a competitive application process. Ap-plicants do not need to be members of SEAC. Applications must be in-hand by December 1st for projects occurring at any time during the subsequent year. For more information http://www.southeasternarchaeology.org/grants-awards/grants/description/
North Carolina Stories is a North Caroli-na Humanities Council grant initiative that encourages the investigation of local history via themes such as immigration, migration, adaptation, and displacement. The project is facilitated by a community nonprofit sponsor with deep and appropriate connections to the specific geographic area and requires a hu-manities scholar specializing in the themes inherent in the project or in the use of digital resources. Under the auspices of the Council, the sponsor group and scholar develop a pro-ject which examines, explores, and illuminates multiple aspects of the community and its his-tory. The partners will utilize digital tools to extend the examination and to identify and preserve the collective and foundational histo-ry of a place. The digital resources, combined with a mapping component, will be showcased with free public programming to bring results into greater relief for the local community and humanities audiences at-large.
North Carolina Stories projects can receive up to $2,000 of Council funds. Applications submitted by the first day of a month will re-ceive notice of funding by the end of that month for projects set to begin the following month. http://nchumanities.org/content/north-carolina-stories Federation Bulletin
MEMBER CONTACTS
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY, WADESBORO
WWW.ANSONHISTORICALSOCIETY.ORG/
APEX AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.apexhistoricalsociety.com
BW&A BOOKS, INC., Durham
https://bwabooks.com/
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION
www.beauforthistoricsite.org
THE BEECH MOUNTAIN HISTORI-CAL SOCIETY HTTP://BEECHMOUNTAINCHAMBER.COM/BUSINESSES/BEECH-MOUNTAIN/ATTRACTIONS/BEECH-MOUNTAIN-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY/
BELMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
THEBELMONTHISTORICALSOCIE-TY.ORG/
BETHANY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BLADENBORO HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY, INC.
BLADENBOROHISTORICALSOCIE-TY.ORG/
BORDER BELT FARMERS MUSEUM, Fairmont
www.facebook.com/The-Borderbelt-Farmers-Museum-Welcome-Center-580647132011557/
BURKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY
C. GRIER BEAM TRUCK MUSEUM, CHERRYVILLE
WWW.BEAMTRUCKMUSEUM.COM/
CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE, Wilmington
www.capefearmuseum.com
CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION, INC., RALEIGH
CAPITALAREAPRESERVATION.COM/
CAROLINAS GENEAOLOGICAL SO-CIETY
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncunion/Genealogical_society.htm
CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CASHIERSHISTORICALSOCIETY.ORG/
CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THE-HISTORY-PLACE-102491979824017/
CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Newton
www.catawbahistory.org
CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
WWW.CHATHAMHISTORY.ORG/
CHERRYVILLE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
CHICAMACOMICO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
CHICAMACOMICO.ORG/
CHOWAN UNIVERSITY
WWW.CHOWAN.EDU
COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
CURRITUCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CURRITUCK-COUNTY-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY-663261697075706/
DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
DUPLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HTTP://DUPLINHISTORY.ORG/
DURHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LI-BRARY
DURHAMCOUNTYLIBRARY.ORG/NCC/
EASTERN CABARRUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Mt. Pleasant
www.echsmuseum.org
EDENTON HISTORICAL
COMMISSION
http://ehcnc.org
EDENTON WOMEN’S CLUB
EDGECOMBE COUNTY COMMUNI-TY COLLEGE HISTORIC PRESER-VATION TRADES PROGRAM
WWW.EDGECOMBE.EDU/PROGRAMS/BUSINESS-INDUSTRY-AND-TECHNOLOGIES/HISTORIC-PRESERVATION-TECHNOLOGY/
ERWIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC PRESERVATIN SOCIETY
HTTP://FEDERAL-POINT-HISTORY.ORG/
FRIENDS OF THE PAGE-WALKER HOTEL, Cary
www.friendsofpagewalker.org
GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM
www.gastoncountymuseum.org
GRANVILLE COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM
WWW.GRANVILLEMUSEUMNC.ORG/
GREATER FAIR BLUFF HISTORI-CAL SOCIETY
GREENSBORO HISTORICAL
MUSEUM
http://greensborohistory.org
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KERNERSVILLE HISTORICAL SO-CIETY
WWW.KERNERSVILLEMUSEUM.COM/
KERNERSVILLE MUSEUM FOUN-DATION
LAWNDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HTTP://WWW.LAWNDALENC.ORG/
LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORIAL ASSOCIATION
WWW.LINCOLNCOUNTYHISTORY.COM/
MATTHEWS HISTORICAL FOUN-DATION
WWW.MATTHEWSHISTORICALFOUNDATION.ORG/
THE MAY MUSEUM AND PARK, FARMVILLE
WWW.FARMVILLE-NC.COM/DEPARTMENTS_MAYMUSEUM.HTM
MCDOWELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FACEBOOK.COM/MCDOWELL-COUNTY-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY-123023633846/
MEBANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM
WWW.MEBANEHISTORICALSOCIETY.ORG/
MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL AS-SOCIATION
WWW.MECKDEC.ORG/
MOORESVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CI.MOORESVILLE.NC.US/297/SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS
MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF REGIONAL HISTORY
www.northcarolinamuseum.org
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MEMBER CONTACTS
HALIFAX COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
HENDERSON COUNTY GENEALOG-ICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.HCGHS.COM/
HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY
http://hickorylandmarks.org
HIGH POINT MUSEUM
www.highpointmuseum.org
HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIE-TY, INC.
HISTORIC BETHANIA
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BETHANIANC/
HISTORIC CABARRUS ASSOCIA-TION, INC.
HISTORICCABARRUS.COM/
HISTORIC FLAT ROCK, INC.
WWW.HISTORICFLATROCKINC.ORG/
HISTORIC HOPE PLANTATION, Windsor
www.hopeplantation.org
THE HISTORIC JAMESTOWN SOCI-ETY
WWW.MENDENHALLHOMEPLACE.COM/
HISTORIC RICHMOND HILL LAW SCHOOL
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
WWW.NCGENWEB.US/HYDE/HCHGS.HTM
JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE, Ra-leigh www.joellane.org
JOHNSTON COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER
WWW.JOHNSTONNC.COM/HERITAGE2/INDEX.CFM?CFID=20205005&CFTOKEN=46015796
MOUNTY HOLLY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/MHHSNC/
MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
www.murfreesboronc.org/
MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY
www.museumofdurhamhistory.org
NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.newbernhistorical.org
NEW HOPE VALLEY RAILWAY, New Hill
www.triangletrain.com
NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCATION OF HISTORIANS
HTTP://WWW.NCHISTORIANS.ORG/
NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY & HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, RA-LEIGH
HTTP://LITANDHIST.NCDCR.GOV/
NORTH CAROLINA MILITARY HIS-TORICAL SOCIETY, RALEIGH
WWW.NCMHS.NET/
NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERI-AN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.NCPHSOCIETY.ORG/
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY, Raleigh
www.ncmuseumofhistory.org
OCRACOKE PRESERVATION SOCI-ETY, INC.
OCRACOKEPRESERVATION.ORG/
OLD HICKORY COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
WWW.OLDHICKORYCOUNCIL.ORG/
OLD SALEM
www.oldsalem.org,
Outer Banks Conservationists
www.theislandfarm.com/history/
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PHOENIIX HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEPHOENIXHISTORICALSOCIETY/
PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL
www.preservationchapelhill.org
PRESERVATION NORTH CAROLI-NA WWW.PRESNC.ORG/
RAILROAD HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, SANFORD-WWW.RAILROADHOUSE.ORG/RAILROAD-HOUSE-HISTORICAL-ASSOCIATION.HTML
RALEIGH CITY CEMETERIES PRESERVATION
HTTP://RCCPRESERVATION.ORG/
RALEIGH HISTORIC DEVELOP-MENT COMMISSION
RHDC.ORG/
RICHMOND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/RICHHISTORY/
ROWAN MUSEUM
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SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVISTS
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SOUTHPORT HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
www.southporthistoricalsociety.org
SWANSBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCI-ATION, INC.
SWANSBOROHISTORICSITE.ORG/
UNC GREENSBORO DEPART-MENT OF HISTORY
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VALLEYTOWN CULTURAL ARTS & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WWW.ANDREWSVALLEYARTS.COM/
VANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY, INC.
WAYNE COUNTY MUSEUM, Goldsboro
http://waynemuseum.org/home
WENDELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
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WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIS-TORICAL ASSOCIATION
HTTP://WWW.WNCHISTORY.ORG/
WILSON COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The Federation
of NC Historical Societies
4610 MSC
Raleigh, NC 27699-4610